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DIY Starbust Mirror

I love starburst mirrors, and I have seen many beautiful ones out there which come with a very high price tag. I have also seen hundreds of DIY ones done by creative bloggers, and most of them are as beautiful as the store bought ones, but I have never seen one done the way I did my version of this mirror.

I was working on a project and I needed a starburst kind of mirror. Since it was impossible to find one in the area we live, I had to turn to my DIY skills and make one. However, I wanted to challenge myself during the process, and started looking for unusual materials for this project; so decided that the plastic zip ties would fit the definition of “unusual” in this case.

I used a plastic round mirror as a base. I started by taking off the mirror and started arranging and hot gluing the plastic ties around the back side of the mirror frame. After arranging about 200 plastic ties around the frame I spray painted (coper) everything and left it to dry overnight.
Next, I hot glued the mirror on to the frame and hot glued a rope on the inside and outside corners of the frame. Lastly, I attached a string at the back of the mirror to serve as a hook.
That was all. The starburst was ready to be hung, and after being hung it seemed that it was spreading some positive vibes around.

GM

Are you keen of making one? If so, try it out and send a picture showing how your’s turned out.

Thank you for reading.
Besa

P.S. The DIY starburst mirror using rope and plastic ties also known as zip ties first appeared on BESA GM blog and it is my original idea, work and design. If using this idea please make a reference to this post. Thank you.